France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls(lemonde.fr)
946 points by aziaziazi | 450 comments
Le Monde article reporting that France will ban unsolicited telemarketing calls from August 11, with fines and a public reporting website.
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs(stolen-thoughts.com)
665 points by quantumgarbage | 295 comments
Project page for a research paper on extracting hidden reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, by authors from MATS, ELLIS, Max Planck and Tübingen.
Compression is prediction(ngrok.com)
611 points by nikolay | 252 comments
An ngrok blog post explaining compression basics and how data compressors and LLMs fundamentally solve the same prediction problem.
England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C(bbc.com)
541 points by stevekemp | 383 comments
BBC News article reporting that England is on track to become one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C.
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining(ft.com)
484 points by ilamont | 454 comments
News article reporting that OpenAI's head of ethics left the company less than a year after joining and was not replaced.
H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon(github.com)
418 points by swyx | 93 comments
GitHub repository for h3.c by antirez, a native MiniMax H3 model inference engine for Mac computers using Apple Silicon/Metal.
Mojo 1.0(modular.com)
411 points by dayanruben | 212 comments
Modular blog post announcing the Modular 26.5 release and version 1.0 of the Mojo programming language.
Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering(developers.googleblog.com)
392 points by 0xedb | 448 comments
Google for Developers blog post by Cameron Balahan and Richard Seroter arguing that Go is well suited to AI-assisted software engineering.
London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces(btp.police.uk)
356 points by BlueBerry2001 | 438 comments
British Transport Police news release about expanding its live facial recognition trial into London Underground stations; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
Nvidia's Risky Business(stratechery.com)
325 points by jonbaer | 157 comments
Stratechery article by Ben Thompson analyzing Nvidia's business risks, opening with a historical anecdote about financier Jay Cooke.
Grok Bot(x.ai)
322 points by rvz | 299 comments
Product landing page for xAI's Grok Bot, an early-beta AI agent desktop app that signs into users' tools and completes work tasks.
Recycle – Floppydisks(floppydisk.com)
105 points by calvinmorrison | 48 comments
OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1(openssh.org)
103 points by voxadam | 32 comments
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning(huggingface.co)
101 points by beklein | 23 comments
The Color of White Light(ludens.cl)
86 points by xk3 | 43 comments
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Hyperspace(hypercritical.co)
68 points by swyx | 47 comments
An image can overflow(master.dev)
52 points by ibobev | 16 comments
Ethical Cold Outreach(blog.val.town)
46 points by stevekrouse | 57 comments
RSI Simulator(paradigm.xyz)
39 points by ckraeuter | 13 comments
Pizza Box Project Stack(cblgh.org)
36 points by surprisetalk | 4 comments
The Ultimate Horse(worksinprogress.co)
36 points by Petiver | 12 comments
